The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Volume 2W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1832 - Anecdotes |
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... seem again to hear her warbling snatches of old tunes ' till , mermaid - like , she sinks beneath the ' weeping - brook ... seems ever changing its hue under the shifting lights of heaven . Then those brown sinewy labourers clutch at the ...
... seem again to hear her warbling snatches of old tunes ' till , mermaid - like , she sinks beneath the ' weeping - brook ... seems ever changing its hue under the shifting lights of heaven . Then those brown sinewy labourers clutch at the ...
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... seems- because they are audible - to leave the stillness more profound , as her voice would not be heard if the grit of the wain , the tramp of the hoof on the dry rutted road , and the ring of the anvil , broke the repose which rests ...
... seems- because they are audible - to leave the stillness more profound , as her voice would not be heard if the grit of the wain , the tramp of the hoof on the dry rutted road , and the ring of the anvil , broke the repose which rests ...
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... seems to have been a custom common afflicted with diseases of the head and stomach . to the whole county at one time , according The belief in their medicinal powers afterwards to The June Days Jingle.- declined , but they were invested ...
... seems to have been a custom common afflicted with diseases of the head and stomach . to the whole county at one time , according The belief in their medicinal powers afterwards to The June Days Jingle.- declined , but they were invested ...
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... seems to have been on the decline of sword - combat exhibitions in the reign of George I. , that the comparatively harmless amusement of boxing arose . There appears to be no such thing known at an earlier date . QUEEN MAGDALEN . the ...
... seems to have been on the decline of sword - combat exhibitions in the reign of George I. , that the comparatively harmless amusement of boxing arose . There appears to be no such thing known at an earlier date . QUEEN MAGDALEN . the ...
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... seem to have succeeded , for the state papers for August 1623 furnish the following breefe noate what the chardges of ... seems to sit aloof . Like many other men of letters , whose work accorded with their taste , and who were safe by ...
... seem to have succeeded , for the state papers for August 1623 furnish the following breefe noate what the chardges of ... seems to sit aloof . Like many other men of letters , whose work accorded with their taste , and who were safe by ...
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afterwards ancient appears August BARTHOLOMEW FAIR battle BATTLE OF HASTINGS beautiful became bells Ben Jonson BERNARD NIEUWENTYT bishop body BOOK OF DAYS brother called carried castle celebrated century character Charles church confessor court curious daughter death died Duke Earl Elizabeth eminent England English father favour favourite fire FLEET MARRIAGES France French friends gave gentleman George give hand head heart Henry honour horse Jacobite James John July king king's labour lady Leigh Hunt letters lived London Lord Louis marriage martyr Mary ment never night Nostradamus occasion Paris passed person Peter the Hermit poet poor Pope popular present Prince prison queen received remained remarkable Richard Robert royal saint says Scotland seems sent September shew Spain St Swithin Street Thomas tion took town Warwickshire whilst wife William WILLIAM MAGINN writer young
Popular passages
Page 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 173 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 299 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Page 234 - God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. Who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all! is quite another thing.
Page 4 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 469 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Page 266 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Page 485 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...